Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism

⭐ Featured Review

"Architectural critic Jonathan Meades tours Italy looking for examples of Mussolini's architecture. Some of the relics are true concrete monstrosities; others invoke images of the past, especially from the Baroque era. Although firmly convinced of his godlike status, Mussolini was culturally ill-educated; many of his products veer between austere modernism and archaic neo-classicism, evoking past glories of the classical and medieval periods. Basically that was all that Frank Hays's production had to say throughout its 90-minute running time. To fill up the space, we had Meades embar..."